End of the World Blues

From Jon Courtenay Grimwood, author of the celebrated Arabesk series, comes a stunningly inventive novel of futuristic noir set in a world of shifting realities. Here a man is drawn into a gritty postmodern subculture and a secret kingdom of otherworldly beings to find what he lost long ago: a reason to live.Kit Nouveau figured he�d already come to the end of the world. An Iraqi war veteran, expatriate, and part owner of Pirate Mary�s, the best Irish bar in Tokyo, Kit had settled down to await the inevitable with barely a whimper. It wasn�t exactly how Kit thought he�d end up, and he was right.It�s going to end up a lot worse.A teenage runaway with fifteen million dollars in stolen cash and a taste for cosplay is about to save Kit�s life in a lethal swirl of scarlet and bridal lace. Lady Neku, a.k.a. Countess of High Strange, has her own dangerous destiny to fulfill and it�s mysteriously connected to Kit�s ravaged past. Now Kit�s only hope for redemption is to save an ex-girlfriend he tragically failed once before. But everyone says it�s already too late. And she�s left behind only one ominous clue: her suicide note.